ited States. Cononess. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare.

NATIONAL PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS ACT, 1974

HEARINGS

BEFORE THE

SUBCOMMITTEE ON LABOR .

OF THE

COMMITTEE ON

LABOR AND PUBLIC WELFARE
UNITED STATES SENATE

NINETY-THIRD CONGRESS

TO GUARANTEE THE RIGHT OF EMPLOYEES TO ORGANIZE
AND BARGAIN COLLECTIVELY WHICH SAFEGUARDS THE
PUBLIC INTEREST AND PROMOTES THE FREE AND
UNOBSTRUCTED FLOW OF COMMERCE

S. 3294

TO PROVIDE THAT EMPLOYEES OF STATES AND POLITI-
CAL SUBDIVISIONS THEREOF SHALL BE SUBJECT TO THE
PROVISIONS OF THE NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS ACT

OCTOBER 1 AND 2, 1974

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U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

WASHINGTON 1974

COMMITTEE ON LABOR AND PUBLIC WELFARE

HARRISON A. WILLIAMS, JR., New Jersey, Chairman

JENNINGS RANDOLPH, West Virginia
CLAIBORNE PELL, Rhode Island
EDWARD M. KENNEDY, Massachusetts
GAYLORD NELSON, Wisconsin
WALTER F. MONDALE, Minnesota
THOMAS F. EAGLETON, Missouri
ALAN CRANSTON, California
HAROLD E. HUGHES, Iowa
WILLIAM D. HATHAWAY, Maine

JACOB K. JAVITS, New York
PETER H. DOMINICK, Colorado
RICHARD S. SCHWEIKER, Pennsylvania
ROBERT TAFT, JR., Ohio

J. GLENN BEALL, JR., Maryland
ROBERT T. STAFFORD, Vermont

JOSEPH P. MCMURRAY, Staff Director and Chief Legislative Counsel
MARJORIE M. WHITTAKER, Chief Clerk

ROY H. MILLENSON, Minority Staff Director
JAY B. CUTLER, Minority Counsel

Flynn, Ralph J., executive director, Coalition of American Public Employ-

ees accompanied by James A. Harris, president, National Education As-

sociation; Robert Chaning, Esq., general counsel, National Education

Association; and Jerry Wurf, international president, American Feder-

ation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, AFL-CIO, a panel_---

Harris, James A., president, National Education Association___

Wurf, Jerry, international president, American Federation of State,

County, and Municipal Employees, AFL-CIO_.

Chaning, Robert, general counsel, National Education Association____.

Helsby, Robert D., chairman, New York State Public Relations Board; also

representing Association of Labor Mediation Agencies, accompanied by

Arvid Anderson, chairman, Office of Collective Bargaining, New York

City

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Shanker, Albert, president, American Federation of Teachers; accompanied

by Philip Kugler, legislative representative, American Federation of

Teachers (AFT), AFL-CIO.

Prepared statement

Young, Hon. Coleman, mayor, city of Detroit, Mich___

Murphy, Richard, SEIU COPE and legislative director, Washington, D.C.;

John Geagan, SEIU general organizer, Washington, D.C.; William

Hardy, president, Illinois State Employees Association, SEIU Local 900,

Springfield, Ill.; Rosemary Trump, president, Service Employees' Union

Local 585, SEIU International Executive Board member, Pittsburgh,

Pa.; Austin Grigsby, president, Los Angeles County Employees Associa-

tion, SEIU Local 660, Los Angeles, Calif.; and Robert Mollica, vice presi-

dent, Boston Social Workers Guild Local 509, Boston, Mass., a panel rep-

resenting Service Employees International Union, AFL-CIO/CLC----

Waller, Jack A., legislative director, International Association of Fire

Fighters (AFL-CIO).

Marshall, James, executive director, Assembly of Governmental Employees,

accompanied by Edward T. Kreiner, executive director, Maryland Classi-

fied Employees Associaton, Inc.; and Stephen S. Boynton, attorney__

Rafferty, Bernard, Philadelphia Association of School Administrators__

Craig, Robert, employee relations administrator, Los Angeles County; ac-

companied by James Evans, legislative representative; and Jack Merel-

man, Washington representative of County Supervisors' Association of

California, representing the National Association of Counties___

Thompson, Robert T., chairman, Labor Relations Committee; accompanied

by John Serunmgard, labor relations attorney, Chamber of Commerce

of the United States: and Harold Lumb, consultant; accompanied by

Michael Markowitz, director of labor management relations, National

Association of Manufacturers_.

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